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Y Shvartzvald1,2, D Maoz1,2, A Udalski3,4, T Sumi5,6, M Friedmann1,2, S Kaspi1,2, R Poleski7,4, M K Szymański3,4, J Skowron3,4, S Kozłowski3,4, L Wyrzykowski3,4, P Mróz3,4, P Pietrukowicz3,4, G Pietrzyński3,4, I Soszyński3,4, K Ulaczyk8,4, F Abe9,6, R K Barry10,6, D P Bennett11,6, A Bhattacharya11,6, I A Bond12,6, M Freeman13,6, K Inayama14,6, Y Itow9,6, N Koshimoto5,6, C H Ling12,6, K Masuda9,6, A Fukui15,6, Y Matsubara9,6, Y Muraki9,6, K Ohnishi16,6, N J Rattenbury13,6, To Saito17,6, D J Sullivan18,6, D Suzuki11,6, P J Tristram19,6, Y Wakiyama9,6, A Yonehara14,6.
Abstract
We present a statistical analysis of the first four seasons from a "second-generation" microlensing survey for extrasolar planets, consisting of near-continuous time coverage of 8 deg2 of the Galactic bulge by the OGLE, MOA, and Wise microlensing surveys. During this period, 224 microlensing events were observed by all three groups. Over 12% of the events showed a deviation from single-lens microlensing, and for ~1/3 of those the anomaly is likely caused by a planetary companion. For each of the 224 events we have performed numerical ray-tracing simulations to calculate the detection efficiency of possible companions as a function of companion-to-host mass ratio and separation. Accounting for the detection efficiency, we find that 55 - 22 + 34 % of microlensed stars host a snowline planet. Moreover, we find that Neptunes-mass planets are ~ 10 times more common than Jupiter-mass planets. The companion-to-host mass ratio distribution shows a deficit at q ~ 10-2, separating the distribution into two companion populations, analogous to the stellar-companion and planet populations, seen in radial-velocity surveys around solar-like stars. Our survey, however, which probes mainly lower-mass stars, suggests a minimum in the distribution in the super-Jupiter mass range, and a relatively high occurrence of brown-dwarf companions.Entities:
Keywords: Galaxy: stellar content; binaries: general; gravitational lensing: micro; planetary systems; surveys
Year: 2016 PMID: 32848283 PMCID: PMC7447140 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw191
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Mon Not R Astron Soc ISSN: 0035-8711 Impact factor: 5.287